Collection highlights and information about IWU’s Tate Archives & Special Collections
Posted in Alumni, Campus Administration, Campus units, Faculty, Students, Unexplored collections on Aug 24th, 2009
What is a finding aid? Basically, it’s our version of a catalog. It helps archivists and patrons find out what material we hold and where it lives.
For a number of years we’ve been trying to get an interactive, 2.0 type of finding aid online. We’re still trying to make that dream a reality, but in [...]
Posted in Faculty, Students, Unexplored collections on May 12th, 2009
Special Collections holds a number of volumes in French. One part of these holdings was described at the time of donation as ”French Socialist Literature,” but topics vary and include literature and politics with dates ranging from the early-1800s to mid-1900s. Selected titles follow:
Clerget, Pierre. La Suisse au XXe Siecle: Etude Economique et Sociale. Paris: Colin, 1908.
Duffeyte-Dilhan, J. Aux Femmes: [...]
Posted in Campus Administration, Campus units, Faculty, Students on May 2nd, 2009
The Ames Library’s Digital Initiatives Team launched IWU’s electronic record storage and access system in fall 2008. Digital Commons serves as the central location for outstanding student work, faculty scholarship, University records, and campus history. It holds 3,552 works to date. To launch this repository, the archives supplied research honors theses and scores dating back to the 1960s, as [...]
Posted in Alumni, Campus Administration, Campus units, Faculty, Students, Unexplored collections on Apr 2nd, 2009
So far I’ve been promoting special collections material in this blog, but many parts of the archives contain chances for research, too! Campus life and growth since 1850 are reflected in records containing the topics below. Don’t be deceived by the short list — it represents approx 800 linear feet of records!
1 : Board of Trustees
2 : Office [...]
Posted in Alumni, Campus Administration, Faculty, Students on Mar 17th, 2009
I will add content to this blog a couple of times a week, and an archives student assistant is taking on the task of scanning and adding photos. We created the “Help ID Photos!” page as a place viewers can see and comment on images we have little or no information about.
In summary, the content on [...]
Posted in Cultural Studies, Faculty on Mar 3rd, 2009
Special Collections has four collections of material for researchers interested in John Wesley Powell and the western U.S.
a manuscript collection of correspondence and articles written by researchers who have contacted IWU for information on Powell over the years,
a collection of books by and about Powell and the American West,
a wide range of material collected by Marcia Thomas [...]
Tate Archives & Special Collections opened this digital collection in 2004.
The World War II Correspondence of former faculty member and alumni (’49) Fred B. Brian are now available to virtual visitors. On-site visitors to the archives are always welcome, too! We are located in the beautiful Ames Library on the southern end of the Illinois Wesleyan University campus.
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